Re: Student proposal deadline.

No, rather, midnight April 8th would mean the end of April 8th in
common usage here (US) at least. To clarify: if it's 11:59 PM April
8th, the next minute would be called midnight April 8th. But
technically, if noon is 12:00 PM, then midnight is 12:00 AM, and 12:00
AM April 8th is the beginning of April 8th, not the end...then again,
if you look up "midnight" in a few dictionaries, you'll see that it
refers to "the transition between night and day", which is a pretty
ambiguous thing.

So I'm agreeing with you =). Google's site is pretty explicit about
it and even has a chart: 11 AM PST, April 8th. However, I was just
going by the e-mails on the thread.

It's completely my fault, I should have checked on the main site. At
any rate, I hope that GSoC has mercy on me...

-Ersin

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 09 April 2011 02:43:33 am Ersin Akinci wrote:
>> It seems like the mistake is on me; actually, I think that Martin was
>> providing a great heads up by saying that the deadline was at
>> midnight rather than the actual deadline, which was in fact 11 AM
>> PST.  I got confused, however, and thought that this meant midnight
>> April 9th, i.e., pitch black outside at the very end of April 8th.
>> At least, this is the standard usage of the term "midnight" where I
>> am from, but I've looked it up the term and I see that it's
>> ambiguous.  It refers generally to the transition between night and
>> day.
>
> So, what are you saying, that the term midnight, April 8th, meant: pitch
> black outside at the very end of April 7th?
>
> That is an odd usage to me, also.  I guess going by a 24 hour clock (in
> C ;-), midnight is 00:00:00 (as opposed to 24:00:00) so it would be the
> next day, but I've never encountered a situation where "midnight, April
> 8th, meant: pitch black outside at the very end of April 7th".
>
> I'm just curious, what do most people think?  Is this country
> specific--I mean maybe US people think my way, and people in some other
> countries think differently?  (Or maybe it is programming language
> specific? ;-)
>
> How is the IRS deadline for income taxes specified?  I know it is (in
> general terms) the end of the day on Monday, April 18th, not the end of
> the day on Sunday, April 17th.
>
> BTW, I'm just trying to learn, not start an argument.
>
> Randy Kramer
>
>

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